Nirenj George

Singapore · nirenjgeorge@yahoo.com

Experienced Solutions Architect and Product Manager with 20 years of industry experience who has demonstrated a history of working in the information technology and services industry.

Skilled in Cybersecurity, Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure, Oracle, Alibaba), Mobile solutions, Product Management, Solution Architecture, Pre-Sales/RFP/RFI, J2EE, RDBMS, .Net, 2FA/Authentication, Agile/Scrum, Data Migration, Prod Support, Vendor Management, Development, Project Management, and ETL, etc.

Strong engineering professional with exposure to leading teams, project management, vendor management, production support as well as software development.

Experience

Vice President, Digital Token Security Engineering Lead

DBS Bank
Nov 2023 - Present

Head of Security Services

Univers (f.k.a. Envision Digital)
July 2020 - Nov 2023

Director, Product Architecture & Innovation

V-Key Singapore
Oct 2016 - July 2020

Subject Matter Expert

DBS Bank Singapore
Aug 2013 - Oct 2016

Senior Systems Analyst

Singapore Institute of Management
Jan 2013 - Aug 2013

IT Consultant

eXSYS Singapore
July 2011 to Jan 2013

Advisory Associate

KPMG Singapore
Oct 2009 - July 2011

Analyst Programmer

DP Credit Bureau
Dec 2007 - Oct 2009

Systems Analyst

Jean Yip Group Singapore
Dec 2005 - Dec 2007

Software Engineer

Technolabs Singapore
Aug 2005 - Dec 2005

Education

Murdoch University

Cybersecurity and Forensics and Business Information Systems

University of London

Computing and Information Systems

Skills

  • Product Management : User/market research, Product Strategy, Product Roadmap, Budgeting, Feature prioritization, Product Marketing, Product Lifecycle Management, Stakeholder Management, RFP/RFI/tender, MVP, User surveys
  • Management skills : Lead developers/architects/pre-sales/support & infra teams
  • Solutioning : Solution Design, Prototyping, 2FA/MFA/IAM, Performance Tuning, BPMN, ETL, Support & Maintenance, Facial Biometrics, FIDO, PKI/Cryptography
  • Cloud : AWS, Google, Azure, Alibaba & Oracle (VM, VPC, Security Group, IAM, Infra)
  • Compliance : FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria, ISO/IEC 27001/27701/27017, FIDO2, GDPR, PDPA, SG Cyber Security Act, MTCS, NIST SP 800-53, ENISA, CSA Star, MAS TRM, Threat Modelling, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill chain, IM8, AIAS, OWASP
  • Operating System : Windows Server, Linux/Unix, AIX, macOS, CentOS, RHEL
  • Database : Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, DB2, MariaDB, RDS, PL/SQL
  • Languages : J2EE, JavaScript, Bash, Grails, PHP, ASP, ColdFusion, Node.js, Visual Basic.Net/6.0
  • Continuous Integration : Jenkins, Artifactory, CA Release Automation, Bitbucket, Git
  • Protocols : SSL, SCP/FTP, SSH, C:D, SASL, AD/LDAP, OAUTH, SAML/OIDC, OCRA, OATH
  • Web Services : SOAP, JSON, REST, API Management (Gateway), SOA & Microservices
  • Framework/ORM Tools : Struts, Spring, Spring Boot, and Hibernate
  • Methodologies : Scrum/Agile, OOAD, RAD, SDLC, UML
  • IoT : BLE, Raspberry Pie, Mozilla IoT, Smart Gateway, RFID, Zigbee, Wi-Fi, Edge
  • Virtualization : Docker, Kubernetes, VMWare, ESXi
  • Security Technologies : Symantec Endpoint Security, AWS Shield, WAF, Vault, KMS, GuardDuty, OWASP, Wireshark, Autopsy, Burp Suite, Nessus, NMap, Metasploit, Kali Linux, Cloud Trail, OSForensic, Cynet EDR, Devo SIEM, BlackDuck SCA, CIS Benchmark, VPN, Syslog, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Risk Assessment, Architecture review, Cyber Security Framework, Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer, Sophos Endpoint Security, Third Party Risk Management, ServiceNow IRM

Certifications

Product Management / Agile Technologies

  • Scrum Alliance Certified: Product Owner
  • Scrum Alliance Certified: Scrum Master
  • ICAgile Certified Professional: Agile Product Ownership
  • Product Management Professional in Blackbolt PMTK Methodology
  • Agile certified from ISS National University of Singapore
  • Six Sigma Yellow Belt certified & Six Sigma White Belt certified

Security Technologies

  • Qualys Certified Specialist: Cloud Security Assessment & Response
  • Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) from Qualys
  • ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Associate by SkillFront
  • Foundations of Breach & Attack Simulation by AttackIQ Academy
  • Uniting Threat & Risk Management with NIST 800-53 & MITRE ATT&CK by AttackIQ Academy
  • International Cybersecurity Institute Certified: Network Security Specialist
  • CYBINT Certified: Cyber Security Protection
  • NICF - Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Cloud Technologies

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
  • AWS Certified: Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Certified: Technical Professional
  • Alibaba Certified: Cloud Associate
  • CompTIA Certified: Cloud+ Intermediate
  • RackSpace Cloud certified

Others

  • Bachelor’s in Cyber Security and Forensics and Business Information Systems from Murdoch University, AU
  • Diploma in Computing and Information Systems from the University of London, UK
  • Professional Diploma in Web Centric Computing from National Institute of Information Technology
  • Microsoft Certified: Visual Basic .NET & Visual Studio .Net
  • Cisco Networking from New Horizons, Singapore
  • ABAP certified from Victoria University and SAP, Australia
  • Big Data, Hadoop, Data Science Foundations Level 1 from Big Data University
  • TOEFL from ETS USA & SAT from College Board, USA
  • Cost & Management Accounting from ICWAI

Awards

  • DBS Spot Award in 2013: 2FA Transaction Signing Project for Hong Kong
  • DBS Spot Award in 2014: Project Management
  • DBS Spot Award in 2014: 2FA Transaction Signing Project for China
  • DBS Spot Award in 2015: 2FA Transaction Signing Project for Singapore
  • DBS Spot Award in 2015: Production Support